Patol er Dorma With Prawns or Prawn Stuffed Pointed Ground

Everyday morning after entering the kitchen we all first think what to cook right, same for me also. I think cooking is not that difficult than thinking. Sometime we have mood to cook something but may be the ingredients are not available or the man might not love that. I have few PATOLS OR POINTED GROUND at home which he doesn’t like that much so I planned to add some PRAWNS to make the dish little different. I made one of my Maa’s special dish PATOL ER DORMA WITH PRAWNS OR PRAWN STUFFED POINTED GROUND. 

This dish is very authentic Bengali dish I have one more PATOL ER DORMA recipe in my blog but that one is a veg recipe so from long time I wanted to cook a non-veg version of PATOL ER DORMA. This one is an easy recipe just the steps are more but with plain rice this dish is truly like heaven. 

Preparation time: 10 mint.
Cooking time: 30 mint.

Ingredients:
For stuffing:
1.Medium size Prawns: 15 to 18 pieces.
2.One medium chopped onion.
3.Two chopped green chilies.
4.Half tea spoon crushed ginger.
5.Pinch of turmeric powder, pinch of red chili powder, Pinch of coriander powder.
6.Two tea spoon: poppy seeds.
7.One tea spoon mustard seeds.
8.Salt and sugar as per taste.
9.One table spoon mustard oil.

For gravy
1.Patol or Pointed Ground: 8 pieces.
2.One medium size sliced onion.
3.One inch chopped ginger.
4.Three clove chopped garlic.
5.One small tomato puree.
6.Turmeric Powder: Red chili Powder: Cumin Powder: Coriander Powder (half tea spoon of each item).
7.One bay leave, One small cinnamon stick, few cumin seeds, Few clove, Two cardamom.
8.One table spoon shredded coconut.
9.Cashew nuts: 8 to 10 piece.
10.Pinch of garam masala powder.
11.Salt and sugar as per taste.
12.Mustard oil for cooking but if you want you can use sunflower oil too.

Process:

Wash and clean the prawns then chopped the prawns into small pieces.

Now add one table spoon of mustard oil in a vessel and slowly add the chopped onions and fry for some time.

Now add the chopped green chilies and the crushed ginger and saute for some time.

Now add all the spices powder with some salt and sugar and cook for 2 mint, then add the chopped prawns and mix well for few mints.

Now make a smooth paste with poppy seeds and mustard seeds with some water and add the mixture into the vessel and cook till the prawn mixture become dry.

Pill the patol or pointed ground and cut one side, and with the help of a spoon take out the seeds.

Now sprinkle some salt and turmeric powder into the pointed grounds. Add some oil in a vessel and fry the pointed grounds in medium flame till the pointed grounds look fried. Now take out them from the vessel and allow them to cool. 

Now stuff the prawn mixture into the fried pointed grounds with a spoon and keep it aside.

Now make the gravy, for this add one tea spoon oil in a different vessel let it become hot then add the bay leave, cumin seeds, cinnamon stick, cardamom and cloves.

Next add the sliced onions, chopped ginger and garlic and fry all together for some time till the onions are become transparent. Now allow this to cool and after that make a smooth paste with some water.

Now again add some oil in a vessel and after it become hot add the onion paste and cook for some time. Then add the fresh tomato puree, all the spices powder with some salt and sugar and cook till the oil separate from the gravy.

Now make a smooth paste with shredded coconut and cashew nuts with some water and add the mixture into the vessel and cook for some time.

Now add some water and slowly place the stuffed pointed ground in the gravy and cook with a lid for 4 to 5 mint in medium heat.

Now remove from heat, your PRAWN STUFFED POINTED GROUND OR PATOL ER DORMA is ready serve hot with plain rice.

Egg Chicken Kathi Roll: A Famous Street Food From Kolkata

I think among all foods we all love street foods the most, because there are so many varieties in street foods. India is famous for street food, form north to south and east to west there are different variety of street foods. Mumbai is famous for juhu chopati where people actually go to have different street foods, so as Kolkata where you will get the good street food and that too in very cheap rate. I am Bengali and belong to Kolkata just for that I am not saying that because I came across so many people who asked me about the food of Kolkata streets. 

Among all the street foods my all-time favorite is CHICKEN ROLL; there are few shops near my home where people just come to have the various rolls like EGG ROLL, CHICKEN ROLL, MUTTON ROLL, PANEER ROLL, VEG ROLL, PRAWN ROLL etc. And if you order for your roll I think before 30 mints you will never get your order. What I love about chicken roll is the crispness off the paratha and the yummy chicken bites. Tried to make something like that to cherish my old evenings, but I made EGG CHICKEN ROLL so at a time you will able to have EGG ROLL+ CHICKEN ROLL.

Preparation time: 10 mint.
Cooking time: 20 mint.

Ingredients:
For paratha:
1.All-purpose flour: one cup. (for four egg chicken rolls)
2.Pinch of baking powder.
3.Pinch of salt.
4.Pinch of sugar.
5.Three tea spoon sunflower oil.
6.Water.

For roll stuffing:
1.Boneless chicken bites: 200 gm.
2.One large red onion sliced.
3.One green bell pepper sliced.
4.One pieces of lemon.
5.Four chopped green chilies.
6.Chaat Masala, Red chili powder, Black pepper powder (half tea spoon of each item.
7.One tea spoon ginger garlic paste.
8.One tea spoon curd.
9.Salt and sugar as per taste.
10.Four eggs.

Process:

Wash and clean the chicken bites, now marinate them with curd, some black pepper powder, some red chili powder, salt, some oil and lemon juice for 10 mints.

Now grill the chicken bites in high temperature of your oven for 10 mints or till the chicken bites are cooked properly. (You can skewer the chicken pieces or just leave them in a greased pan and try to place them separately don’t overlap).

Now add some oil in a vessel and slowly add the sliced onions and sliced green peppers and fry in high flame for some time.

Now reduce the heat and add the ginger garlic paste and fry for some time.

Next add rest of the red chili powder, black pepper powder, the chaat masala with some salt and sugar and mix well.

Now add the grilled chicken bites and cook for another 5 mints, your roll stuffing is ready

Make dough with all the paratha ingredients, the dough need to look smooth and shiny. Make four equal size balls with the dough.

Roll a round shape big size paratha with help of a rolling pin, Now fry each paratha with some oil.

Now take an egg to be beaten with some salt, add some oil in a pan and slowly add the beaten egg to make a round shape omelette. When the lower portion is cooked properly place a fried paratha on the top of the uncooked side of the omelette and fry slowly. 

Now turn the paratha you can see that in one side of the paratha the omelette got attached so nicely, and you can also eat this as EGG PARATHA which is really yummy with some salads and sauce.

Now do the same with rest of the parathas, now place the paratha in a butter paper  and the side on which you have put the egg should be on the top. In the middle of each paratha add the chicken stuffing; now sprinkle some green chilies and some lemon juice on top of the stuffing. 

Now roll the parathas with the paper and wrap the lower portion.

The yummy EGG CHICKEN KATHI ROLL is ready serve hot otherwise the test will become light.

Homemade Burger Bread

I am never afraid while cooking but if its matter of baking I am always afraid. Because baking is something which can be best or worst, if the measurement is not perfect your all kind of work will be in vain. I am not that baking person I just love to bake cake occasionally and every time I am really cross my finger. This is the first time I baked some burger bread and they are just beyond my imagination. So soft so fluffy exactly like shop and I am just more than happy.

While doing all the process I am just praying to God that I don’t want to be failed. But I am so wrong they are just awesome my husband can’t even believe that I made those breads. We all love burgers but I never thought I can make burger breads ever like shops.

Preparation time: 20 mints.
Baking time: 20 to 25 mints.

Ingredients:
1.All-purpose flour: 3 cup.
2.Luke warm Milk: 1 ¼ cup.
3.Warm water:1/4 cup.
4.Butter: 3 tea spoon.
5.Dry Yeast: 2 ½ tea spoon.
6.Salt : half tea spoon.
7.Sugar: two tea spoon.
8.One beaten egg.
9.Few sesame seeds.
10.Little all purpose flour and butter for greasing.

Process:

First add the butter into the Luke warm milk and mix nicely, now add the yeast into the Luke warm water and mix nicely.

Add the yeast mixture and the milk butter mixture in a big bowl with some salt and sugar and mix well.

Now add the all-purpose flour into the mixture (one cup at a time) and slowly mix them.

Now in a floury surface knead the dough with both your hands till it become soft and shiny.

Now cover the dough with a plastic wrap and keep it in a warm place for 40 to 50 mints.

Now after 40 mints your dough become double in size (that mean the dough is perfect for bread).

Now divide the dough into 9 equal sizes and give a nice round shape to them with the help of your palm.

Grease the oven proof tray with some butter and flour and place the balls one after one (in 3 rows just like the photo). Try to place them very close as they will rise and spread. Now brush the bitten eggs in all the balls and sprinkle some sesame seeds.

Now cover the tray again with a plastic wrap and keep it in a warm place for 30 mints, after that those balls are become double in size. Pre heat the oven in 350F.

Now bake them for 20 to 25 mints, then remove it from the tray and place them in a cool rack.

The easy and yummy homemade burger breads are ready you can eat whatever way you would like too. They are soft and perfect for dinner or breakfast.

Kesar Pesta Ice Cream

Summer means lots of fun in park, picnic and all the activities outside. But sometime summer means just so much of sunlight, high temperature with humidity. Like today it’s scorching heat and till 9 o’clock outside was burning. So to make myself chill and feel little comfortable I prepared some nice and soothing KESAR PESTA ICE CREAME. And they were delicious. 

My husband doesn't have any idea that I will be making something like that so I can say after coming back from office he was just shocked and tremendous happy after the first bite. In a hot summer day what else you need to make yourself chill.

Preparation time: 10 mints.
Cooking time: 30 mints.
Freezing time: 4 to 6 hrs.

Ingredients:
1.Heavy Milk: 2 cup.
2.Condensed Milk: half cup.
3.Chopped pistachios: One table spoon.
4.Chopped almond: One tea spoon.
5.Few cardamom seeds.
6.Pinch of saffron.
7.Half tea spoon corn flour.
8.Sugar: 3 tea spoon or as per your taste.
9.Half cup extra milk.

Process:
Soaked the saffron stands in few spoon of warm milk. Add the corn flour in rest of the milk no lump should be there. (use the extra half cup milk).

Now add the milk in a heavy bottomed vessel and keep stirring it till it reduces the quantity almost half add the condensed milk and stir continuously.

Now add the cardamom seeds, chopped pistachios and chopped almonds and stir for some time.

Now add the sugar, saffron soaked milk and the corn flour mixture and stir it till become thick.

Now pour the mixture in some ice cream molds or any other container after it become cool down and refrigerates it for 4 to 6 hrs.

If you pour your mixture into an ice cream molds, then to get it out smoothly pour some hot water into the molds or keep the ice cream molds into some hot water for few mints so easily ice creams will come out.

Enjoy your KESAR PESTA ICE CREAM .

Chicken Samosa

‘SAMOSA’ an ultimate word for any Indian, we are never going to see the time if we get some samosas.  Usually Samosa is famous in North India and West Bengal both. Tea and samosa is always a perfect evening choice for us. I usually make samosa with Cauliflower but this time I prepared some Chicken Samosa. They were just awesome but I am really thankful to my friend Tanushri she gave me some nice tips for frying the samosas. 

It’s better to try something different every time. My chicken samosas were just perfect like shop, cant stop myself to make it again and again. 

Preparation time: 10 mints.

Cooking time: 20 to 30 mint. (for 8 samosa)

Ingredients:

For outer part:

1.One cup all-purpose flour.

2.Half cup ata.

3.Pinch of salt.

4.Three tea spoon ghee or sunflower oil.

5.Half tea spoon baking powder.

6.Water.

For inner filling:

1.Boneless chicken:100 gm (finely chopped).

2.One medium size chopped onion.

3.One tea spoon ginger garlic paste.

4.Half tea spoon red chili powder.

5.Half tea spoon chaat masala.

6.Pinch of garam masala.

7.Half tea spoon lime juice.

8.Chopped coriander leaves: A hands full. 

9.Salt and sugar as per taste.

10.Three tea spoon oil.

And extra oil for frying.

Process:

Take one large bowl and add the all-purpose flour, atta , salt, and baking powder and whisked all together. Now add the ghee for MOYAM and some water and make a nice dough. It should be smooth and soft. Now cover the dough with a plastic wrap and keep it aside for 20 mints.

In the meantime make the filling. 

Take one vessel and add the oil, after it become hot, add the chopped onion and fry till they become soft.

Now add the ginger garlic paste with all the spices powder except garam masala and cook till the oil separate.

Now add the chopped chicken pieces with some salt and sugar and cook for another 5 to 8 mints.

Now add the lemon juice, chopped coriander leaves and sprinkle the garam masala and cook for another 5 mints in low flame. Your stuffing is ready.

Now take out the dough and make two to three balls, roll those with a roller pin make it a big like roti but little thick. Now cut the roti with a sharp knife into four quarters. And with the each quarter make one samosa.

Now put a spoon full of stuffing inside each of the pieces and join the edges, if needed brush some water into the edges.

Now slowly make all the samosas.

Now pour enough oil in a deep karai and slowly add samosas (two at a time) at the same time switch of the gas, slowly the oil will become hot and somosa’s will also start frying. After the oil become hot reduce the heat and fry till it become golden.

CHICKEN SAMOSA is ready; enjoy your hot samosa with a cup of tea and ketchup.

Chicken Samosa

‘SAMOSA’ an ultimate word for any Indian, we are never going to see the time if we get some samosas.  Usually Samosa is famous in North India and West Bengal both. Tea and samosa is always a perfect evening choice for us. I usually make samosa with Cauliflower but this time I prepared some Chicken Samosa. They were just awesome but I am really thankful to my friend Tanushri she gave me some nice tips for frying the samosas. 

It’s better to try something different every time. My chicken samosas were just perfect like shop, cant stop myself to make it again and again. 

Preparation time: 10 mints.

Cooking time: 20 to 30 mint. (for 8 samosa)

Ingredients:

For outer part:

1.One cup all-purpose flour.

2.Half cup ata.

3.Pinch of salt.

4.Three tea spoon ghee or sunflower oil.

5.Half tea spoon baking powder.

6.Water.

For inner filling:

1.Boneless chicken:100 gm (finely chopped).

2.One medium size chopped onion.

3.One tea spoon ginger garlic paste.

4.Half tea spoon red chili powder.

5.Half tea spoon chaat masala.

6.Pinch of garam masala.

7.Half tea spoon lime juice.

8.Chopped coriander leaves: A hands full. 

9.Salt and sugar as per taste.

10.Three tea spoon oil.

And extra oil for frying.

Process:

Take one large bowl and add the all-purpose flour, atta , salt, and baking powder and whisked all together. Now add the ghee for MOYAM and some water and make a nice dough. It should be smooth and soft. Now cover the dough with a plastic wrap and keep it aside for 20 mints.

In the meantime make the filling. 

Take one vessel and add the oil, after it become hot, add the chopped onion and fry till they become soft.

Now add the ginger garlic paste with all the spices powder except garam masala and cook till the oil separate.

Now add the chopped chicken pieces with some salt and sugar and cook for another 5 to 8 mints.

Now add the lemon juice, chopped coriander leaves and sprinkle the garam masala and cook for another 5 mints in low flame. Your stuffing is ready.

Now take out the dough and make two to three balls, roll those with a roller pin make it a big like roti but little thick. Now cut the roti with a sharp knife into four quarters. And with the each quarter make one samosa.

Now put a spoon full of stuffing inside each of the pieces and join the edges, if needed brush some water into the edges.

Now slowly make all the samosas.

Now pour enough oil in a deep karai and slowly add samosas (two at a time) at the same time switch of the gas, slowly the oil will become hot and somosa’s will also start frying. After the oil become hot reduce the heat and fry till it become golden.

CHICKEN SAMOSA is ready; enjoy your hot samosa with a cup of tea and ketchup.